Donna Seager’s book collection doesn’t look like most people’s. Instead of being lined up neatly on shelves, many of her books have been hacked to pieces, folded and warped like origami, transformed ...

Nearly 30 years after a dizzying sculpture fashioned from books was first installed in the Czech Republic’s Prague Municipal Library, literature lovers on TikTok and Instagram have turned the artwork ...

Books are usually objects of quiet familiarity. They sit on shelves, waiting to be opened, read and returned to their place. Their purpose appears straightforward — to hold words and images that tell ...